Fish or germs? Microbial dynamics associated with changing trophic structures on coral reefs

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 231-240

  Dinsdale, Elizabeth A ^a   Rohwer, Forest ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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